quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
Was that SUPPOSED to be a joke ?
Bill 
The really funny thing is that I keep misreading your name as Mike Touchy and you just proved how apt that would be!!
Anyway interesting that you opined (sorry Al there's that word again!!) that Lightfoot! was releasaed in i966 not the usually accepted/stated 1965.I know I first became aware of this marvellous voice in 1965 when I first of all heard the Buddy Holly style song "Spin Spin" which was in the Canadian top ten in
October 1965 but after that I then heard Gord's masterly cover of Ewan McColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"and I seem to remember that I wasted no time trying to find the Lightfoot! first UA album in order to get "Face" and yet I recorded at the time that I bought it in April 1967 (not long before I first saw Gord Live in May 1967). So I have always doubted the claim of a 1965 release date. Or does anybody reading this have more information???
Actually Wayne who usuasly uses impecable details says in his 1960s chronology page
"In January, Lightfoot! is released by United Artists."
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